Title & Author:

From Chicago to L.A. : making sense of urban theory / Michael J. Dear, editor, with J. Dallas Dishman.

Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2002.

Description:

xi, 444 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Resistable rise of the L.A. school / Michael J. Dear and Steven Flusty -- Demographic dynamism in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC / Dowell Myers -- Los Angeles as postmodern urbanism / Michael J. Dear and Steven Flusty -- Imagining postmodern urbanism / Michael J. Dear -- Industry and the landscapes of social reform / Greg Hise -- Los Angeles as a developmental city-state / Steven P. Erie -- Industrial urbanism in late-twentieth-century southern California / Allen J. Scott -- From immigrants in the city, to immigrant city / Jerome Straughan and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- Globalization of urban homelessness / Madeleine R. Stoner -- Play groups no longer: urban street gangs in the Los Angeles region / Cheryl L. Maxson and Malcolm W. Klein -- Religion in Los Angeles: patterns of spiritual practice in a postmodern city / Donald E. Miller -- Ecologies of cyberspace: gay communities on the Internet / J. Dallas Dishman -- Representing "Los Angeles": media, space, and place / Darnell M. Hunt -- Returning to ecology: an ecosystem approach to understanding the city / Ashwani Vasishth and David C. Sloane -- Urban nature and the nature of urbanism / Jennifer Wolch, Stephanie Pincetl, and Laura Pulido -- Saber y conocer: the metropolis of urban inquiry / Philip J. Ethington and Martin Meeker -- L.A. school: a personal introduction / Michael J. Dear.
English.

Summary:

"From Chicago to L.A. begins the task of defining an alternative agenda for urban studies and examines the case for shifting the focus of urban studies from Chicago to Los Angeles. The authors, experienced scholars from a variety of disciplines, examine: the concepts that have blocked our understanding of Southern California cities; the imaginative structures that people have been using to understand and explain Los Angeles; the utility of the "Los Angeles School" of urbanism."--Back cover.

Resources:
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Donor bookplate

ISBN:

0761920943 (cloth)
9780761920946 (cloth)
0761920951 (pbk.)
9780761920953 (pbk.)

Subject:

Urbanization California Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
Urbanization United States.
Sociology, Urban United States.
Urbanisation États-Unis.
Sociologie urbaine États-Unis.
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban.
Urbanization.
Verstädterung
Stadsplanning.
Urbanisatie.
Sociaal-economische situatie.
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) Social conditions.
California Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
United States.
Los Angeles, Calif. Region

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Dear, M. J. (Michael J.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269195
Call No.: BIB 201310
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available